This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conceptual chapter

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage pover

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world"--

Deepak Lal outlines and assesses the validity of a set of beliefs about third world economic development that underlies the thinking of many politicians, bureau

One of a modularized series of short books on introductory sociology, this is an introduction to the field of development studies, its fundamental concepts and